SoCal Regional playoffs begin Tuesday in three divisions. The second round is Thursday and the finals are Saturday at Santiago Canyon College.
Here are the first round pairings
Division I
Top half
No. 8 Buchanan at No. 1 Huntington Beach
No. 4 San Clemente at No. 5 Granada Hills
Bottom half
No. 3 Loyola at No. 6 Clovis
No. 7 Santa Fe at No. 2 Otay Ranch
The CIF released the seedings and the pairings for the Southern California Regional on Saturday night.
The first round matches are Tuesday at the home team school. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be held Friday at The Claremont Club, and the finals will be held Saturday at the same location.
The seedings:
No. 1 University
No. 2 San Diego Torrey Pines
No. 3 San Marino
No. 4 La Jolla
No. 5 Corona del Mar
No. 6 Palisades
No. 7 Palm Desert
No. 8 Clovis West
The first round pairings:
Tuesday, 2 p.m.
Rancho Bernardo of San Diego at University
Harvard-Westlake at Clovis West
El Camino Real at Corona del Mar
Arroyo Grande at La Jolla
La Jolla Country Day at San Marino
Santa Barbara at Palisades
Bullard of Fresno at Palm Desert
Beverly Hills at Torrey Pines of San Diego
The Oilers found themselves down 2-1 in the Division I CIF champinship to Loyola of L.A., but Huntington Beach rallied to win their first CIF boys volleyball title in 20 years.
Video by Jonathan Khamis, OCVarsity.com.
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Several of the county’s top athletes enjoyed big performances at the 2013 CIF-SS Divisional Finals Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College.
To view complete results from the meet, please click here.
Special thanks to www.royalresults.com for access to CIF-SS Divisional Finals Results.
Former El Toro High star Lauren Chamberlain of Oklahoma is one of the top home run hitters in the nation.
Orange County has long been considered a hotbed for softball talent. There are 48 OC girls playing in this year’s NCAA Tournament, which started with regionals this weekend and concludes with the Women’s College World Series from May 30-June 5 in Oklahoma City. Check out the list:
OC PLAYERS IN NCCA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT
(Regular season statistics)
Nicole Schroeder, Arkansas, Fr., Inf., Esperanza High, 50 games, .241, 9 HR, 27 RBI
Mandie Perez, Arizona, Fr., 2B, Whittier Christian High, .289, 5 HR, 27 RBI
Hallie Wilson, Arizona, So., OF, Foothill High, .365, 7 HR, 22 RBI, 37 runs
Lauren Young, Arizona, Fr., Inf., Canyon High, .284, 12 HR, 36 RBI
USC’s Kaleigh Gilchrist (Newport Harbor) and Rachel Fattal (Los Alamitos) each earned first-team all-tournament honors at the recent NCAA women’s water polo championships.
Gilchrist and Fattal also were among the 27 players invited to a U.S. training camp this weekend.
Here are the all-tournament teams, which includes a trio of former county players on second team:
All-Tournament Team
MVP – Flora Bolonyai (USC)
First Team
Melissa Seidemann (Stanford)
Kaleigh Gilchrist (USC/Newport)
Maggie Steffens (Stanford)
University’s boys tennis team won its fourth consecutive CIF-Southern Section Division 1 title with a 13-5 victory over Corona del Mar on Friday afternoon at The Claremont Club.
The full story can be found in Saturday’s Register, but below are the scores from the match.
Singles
1. Gage Brymer (University) def. Samee Aboubakare (Corona del Mar), 6-0, def. Alec Adamson (CdM), 6-2, def. Jonathan Rhone, 6-0
2. Tyler Lu (University) lost to Alec Adamson (CdM), 7-6 (7-3), def. Jonathan Rhone (CdM), 6-1, def. Tyler Gaede (CdM), 6-0.
3. Stefan Menichella (University) def. Jonathan Rhone (CdM), 6-1, def. Samee Aboubakare (CdM), 6-2, def. Alec Adamson (CdM), 6-3.
Doubles
1. Drew Dawson/Konrad Kozlowski (University) def. Josh Kliger/Carson Williams (CdM), 6-2, def. Chaz Downing/Pedro Fernandez (CdM), 6-1, def. Andrew Nguyen/Paul Kacik (CdM), 6-0.
2. Issei Hasegawa/Matt Maddox (University) lost to Downing/Fernandez (CdM), 6-2, Billy Lee/Arseni Yalouskikh lost to Bjorn Hoffman/Andrew Nguyen (CdM), 6-4, Garrett Kurtz/Michael Chang (University) lost to Kliger/Williams (CdM), 6-2.
3. Eric Tseng/Arash Hafezi (University) def. Kliger/Williams (CdM), 6-4, def. Downing/Fernandez (CdM), 6-3, def. Hoffman/Nguyen (CdM), 6-1.
Beckman defensive end Charles Wright (6-4, 220) has been offered by San Jose State, New Mexico State and Sacramento State, the junior confirmed.
Wright had 77 total tackles and four sacks last season.
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
Mission Viejo’s Alyssa Palomino breaks the all-time OC home run record, hitting her 18th of the season against Aliso Niguel in a first round playoff matchup. The Diablos went on to win 14-0.
Interviews with Palomino, Taylor McQuillin, and head coach Troy Ybarra.
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Mission Viejo’s Alyssa Palomino hit her 18th homer of the year, breaking Lauren Chamberlain’s single-season county record. Mission Viejo leads Aliso Niguel 1-0 in the top of the second.
Jenna Holcomb gets down a bunt down the third-base line … E-5!!! She’s on to lead off the top of the sixth for Los Al.
Erika Crissman’s ground out advances Holcomb to second.
Megan Geer lines out to short and Holcomb almost gets doubled up at second.
Rachel Sellers flies out to center field to end the inning.
MLK 3, Los Al 1 after 6 innings.
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Los Alamitos is down to its final three outs and has its 4, 5 and 6 hitters coming up in the top of the seventh.
MLK has a 3-1 lead and Alabama-committed Alexis Osorio in the circle.
Mattie Scheele flies out to center field. One down.
LMU-bound Alex Finie singles to right field. Here comes a pinch runner for Finie.
Kate Prior pops out to short. Two down.
Taylor Covington doubles to left-center field to drive in a run and cut MLK’s lead to 3-2. This one ain’t over, yet.
Bionca Trejo pops up in foul territory, but MLK’s first baseman makes the running catch to end the game.
MLK defeats Los Al, 3-2, in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs. MLK plays the Orange Lutheran-Saugus winner. OLu was winning 1-0 in that game the last I heard.
Nicole DeWitt hits a grand slam and Pacifica leads El Modena, 5-0, in the bottom of the fourth.
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I told you Tennessee-bound Megan Geer was Los Al’s best hitter before Jenna Holcomb got thrown out trying to steal last inning with Geer at the plate.
Well, Geer just led off the top of the fourth with a solo bomb to left-center field. That’s Geer’s 13th homer of the year and it cuts MLK’s lead to 2-1.
Emily Ramelot leads off the bottom of the fourth with a bunt single for MLK.
Stephanie Gutierrez grounds to short, Jate Prior makes the long throw, but first baseman Alex Finie can’t keep her foot on the bag. MLK has runners on first and second with two outs.
Lu Lu Gargicevich with a grounder to short, Los Al tries to get runner at third and … she’s safe. THE BASES ARE JUICED!!!
Los Al’s freshman pitcher Jade Loe enduces two pop outs to get out of the jam.
MLK 2, Los Al 1 after 4 innings.
Pacifica leads El Mo 1-0 in the top of the third.
OLu and Saugus are scoreless in the bottom of the second.
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